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Amputations
1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2022032714 · 3/26/2022 · Air Starter Components, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 1
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- Nature of injury
- Amputations
Cause
- Event
- Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- Source
- Lathes, unspecified
- Secondary source
- Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
Employer
- Name
- Air Starter Components, Inc.
- Location
- 13935 Stafford Road, STAFFORD, TEXAS, 77477
- NAICS
- 335312
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was sanding a part on a lathe. The sandpaper caught his gloves, and the rotating lathe amputated two fingers on his right hand.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown